I used to play D2 myself, i wound up selling all my stuff to play FFXI, currently ive been playing for the past 5 years and all i can say is its a fun game, alot of stuff to do, and theres nothing repetitive other than partying. very fun game, excellent graphics... so much better than WoW... ive played ffxi since it came out and i still play it, and if you have the time to spend i will highly reccomend it to you. im on the Server Fairy 75 ninja 75 monk 61 sam atmlots of jobs to level

warrior
white mage
black mage
monk
thief
red mage
samurai
ninja
summoner
blue mage
corsair
ranger
puppetmaster
dancer
scholar
dark knight
paladin
beastmaster
dragoon

all fun jobs theres enough to play what u like
several different areas of all levels
4 different expansions
if you have any other questions just message me Via PM

is it also based on finding rare items and goin pvp?

ff is a great game i love it but it is hard for me to stay on it for more than like a month at a time so its one of those games that is good to play when your bored with everything else people get bored of that game and take like month long breaks

i heard ff11 was gay.

FF11 shouldn't even be a part of the FF series period. I thought it was quite the disgrace. I'm a hardcore FF series fan and I was very disappointed in the fact that you have to pay money to play it. If I were you I'd stay Hardcore.

There are better MMORPG's out there than FF11; if you're going to pay for a game monthly, might as well pay for the best one there is or at least one of the best - FF11 is neither of which.

If you drool over anything with a Final Fantasy label slapped onto it you might like 11, but otherwise, go for WoW, or if you like Sci-Fi stuff, go for EVE Online. Alternative to those are some of the newer ones like Conan, which might be worth a shot; the only issue with WoW or EVE would be that they are older games so you would be behind. The system of "leveling" in EVE is such that you can NEVER catch up to players who have been playing longer than you; you train in real time online or offline.

With WoW you can catch up by getting into good guilds and then guidldhopping your way to the top of your battlegroup, however there is so much to do that you have already missed out on (nobody raids MC, BWL, ZG, AQ40, AQ20, Naxx anymore and those were ungoodly fun) so you'd need to learn fast when it comes to raiding, and settle for a guild that isn't top notch until you have good enough gear and experiance for the better ones. However, there is a new expansion coming soon, so it might be a great opportunity to get into it, the last expansion was quite massive and this new one will be too; but i'd get the game BEFORE it comes out so you can get adjusted and used to it and won't be 100% new once its there.

There are also a lot of Free MMO's out there, but none of them are as good as the paying games thusfar, i've tried a ton of them

WOW CAN EAT A DICK FUCKIN MOST BORING SLOW PACED GAME KNOWN TO FUCKIN MAN, EW I HATE THAT UGLY POS
/endrage

ROFL rage more please.

To the OP....just stick with D2.